Tea & Talk – Ashintully, the Tytuses, the Mclennans and a Special Friendship

Berkshire County native Holly McLennan Ketron, raised at Ashintully, the magnificent country house in Tyringham, will give a visual presentation entitled Ashintully, the Tytuses, the McLennans and a Special Friendship. A tea will follow her program.

Ketron will talk about the magnificent house built by her grandmother, Grace Tytus McLennan, the life of three generations in the house, and the deep, and little known, friendship between Grace and Mildred Bliss, creator of the gardens and house at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C.

Ventfort Hall talks often bring us stories of lives led in Gilded Age cottages from a secondary …